Exit Strategy to Dublin Fringe Festival

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"Exit Strategy" is a part game, part theatre production about quitting, investments and happiness by Makeshift Ensemble that opened as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival in June. We hope you can help us bring this piece to Dublin Fringe Festival in September 2013.

Who we are:

We are Makeshift Ensemble a Cork-based young theatre company developing collaborative documentary theatre using non-actors on stage and creating performances that are accessible and maybe a bit different. Our style is strongly influenced by continental documentary theatre largely due to the fact that the company was originally the cast and crew of Fuck My Life a co-production between CAMPO and Cork Midsummer Festival before starting to create work in our own right. Exit Strategy, which is somewhere between a game and a theatre play, is a collaboration between Eszter Nemethi (Hungary) and Leah Hearne(Ireland) and stems from our conflicting views on leaving and a fascination with behavioural economics and game theory that promise a life that is calculable.

Our project:

We are very excited that Exit Strategy is programmed as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival this year. It is an amazing opportunity for us to present our work as part of the festival, represent Cork and also to be seen by programmers and start to develop an audience nationally.

“Exit Strategy” is part theatre play, part game about the strategies we follow to quit. A show for those with conflicting feelings about leaving, the future, sinking ships, national anthems and game theory. A documentary theatre piece about investments, fate and happiness. Quitting seems to be the big thing: companies liquidate or pull out of countries, countries threaten to pull out of Europe and people are pulling out of countries, relationships, bad habits and reality. This is a show where the performers ask the questions and what happens next it is up to the audience.

Why we need your help:

"Exit Strategy" is the first show that we hope to take outside of the city and to do that we need your help. To develop the show we received generous support from the Youth In Action programme, Cork Midsummer Festival, the Flemish Council for Arts and Heritage and UCC Drama and Theatre Studies.

We have already raised 50% of the money necessary to bring the show to Dublin but touring is an expensive thing and we really need your patronage to be able to pay for travel, accommodation, transport, marketing, technical fees and artist fees which are all necessary to bring this show to Dublin.

We are very honoured that we have this opportunity to showcase our work at the Dublin Fringe Festival but we rely on you to make this happen.

A huge thank you from Eszter, Leah, Houdini (the frog) and all at Makeshift Ensemble

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Fund €10+

You are a FRIEND. We really couldn’t do this without you. We are very grateful and we will put your name in our programme and you will get a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

Fund €50+

You are an orange PATRON. You see things differently and you are supporting us because we are a bit different and you know this is a unique opportunity. As an orange FRIEND you will receive an orange origami frog and a postcard with a personalised orange fate invented by Eszter and Leah, a ticket to the opening night of the show at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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Fund €50+

You are a green PATRON. You think community is very important and you are supporting us because we are trying hard to nurture a community and you know that your support will go a long way. As a green FRIEND you will receive a green origami frog and a postcard with a personalised green fate invented by Eszter and Leah, a ticket to the opening night of the show at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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Fund €50+

You are a yellow PATRON. You understand that aiming high is very important and you are supporting us because we have the eyes on the ball and you know going to Dublin is a next stage in our journey. As an yellow FRIEND you will receive an yellow origami frog and a postcard with a personalised or yellow fate invented by Eszter and Leah, a ticket to the opening night of the show at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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Fund €50+

You are a red PATRON. You are proud of where you are from and you are supporting us because we will be representing Cork at the Dublin Fringe Festival and you think it is important that we do that. As a red FRIEND you will receive an red origami frog and a postcard with a personalised red fate invented by Eszter and Leah, a ticket to the opening night of the show at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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Fund €50+

You are a white PATRON. You are content and confident and you are supporting us because you know it’s a good thing to be supportive and it makes everyone happier. As a white FRIEND you will receive an white origami frog and a postcard with a personalised white fate invented by Eszter and Leah, a ticket to the opening night of the show at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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Fund €50+

You are a blue PATRON. You know that dreams are important and you are supporting us because we are pursuing our dreams and you know that is a good thing. As an ble FRIEND you will receive a blue origami frog and a postcard with a personalised blue fate invented by Eszter and Leah, a ticket to the opening night of the show at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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Fund €100+

You are a FUNDER. We are forever grateful for your pledge. Thank you! We have lots of unique rewards for you too. As a FUNDER you will receive a unique origami frog designed by one of six artists, the framed copy of "Prenups and the Pope" a poem by Emmet O'Brien that was a scene that never made it into the show at the end, your personalised playing set for the show and a guarantee that you will be one of the Prisoner's Dilemma mini-game players, a ticket to any night of the run at the Dublin Fringe Festival, invitation to a wine reception after the opening with the cast and crew (and/or to a reception in Cork before we leave for Dublin), your name in our programme and a huge smile from us and a big thank you in person, on twitter and on Facebook.

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1 Day to go

Update posted on Wednesday 31st July '13 @ 06:07:13

Hi!
For some of you thank you again for your generous support and for others thank you for the first time. Thanks to you we are at 92% today with just one day left from the campaign. We are nearly there with only €125 left to raise until we hit our target (and until we will be able to bring Exit Strategy to the Dublin Fringe Festival).
At the moment we are getting ready to get back into production mode with the show and Eszter was in Dublin yesterday visiting the venue and meeting with the Dublin Fringe team ahead of their programme launch. We are also busy editing the video footage of the show into a full length video and preparing a promo video, designing posters, flyers and deliberating the best way to go about to promote the show in Dublin.
This last day is the final hurray to get us over the line. We are hopeful that we will get there. If you were able to help over this last day by talking about us to friends it would be absolutely brilliant too!
Again THANK YOU! for all your support.
Regards,
Eszter, Leah, Houdini (the frog) and the entire Exit Strategy team

1 Week to go

Update posted on Friday 26th July '13 @ 01:07:16

Hi!
Thank you so much for supporting us and pledging to our campaign. Thanks to you we are at 42%. Today we are starting the final week of the campaign to reach €1650 to be able to take the show to the Dublin Fringe Festival.
In "real life" outside of social media and the Fundit campaign we are at the moment planning for the festival setting up meetings in Dublin to make sure we know how our theatre works, and what we will need to do to promote the show. We are also assembling a brilliant Dublin team to help us through inside knowledge. We also had a great evaluation meeting and have identified things we would still like to look at in rehearsal. In a short sentence it is getting real.
We really believe in this show and think it is important that we can show it to as many people as possible. We would like to thank you, truly and honestly, that you also think this is a good cause to support. If you can, we would really appreciate if in the next week you would be able to help us reach the target by talking about us to friends, colleagues (or anyone who would listen) on twitter or facebook or in real life.
Again THANK YOU! for all your support so far.
Regards,
Eszter, Leah, Houdini (the frog) and the entire Exit Strategy team